Tuesday, January 6, 2015

A cat eating
dog is making news ~ International ramifications – as it is a Siberian Tiger
(big cat) eating a Chinese dog. The Amur River or Heilong Jiang is the world's tenth longest river, forming
the border between the Russian Far East and Northeastern China. The Siberian
tiger (Panthera tigris altaica), also known as the Amur tiger, is a tiger
subspecies inhabiting mainly the Sikhote Alin mountain region. The declining population has been a cause of concern for many.

Kuzya is a free and open source, cross-platform IDE. It is developed in
C++ using Qt as the GUI toolkit. In the
animal World, it is the name of a 2 year old
Siberian tiger – virile, canny with boundless appetite for red meat. It is a special tiger, which was reintroduced
into wild by President Vladimir Putin of Russia. In October this year, satellite tracking
signals from a special collar indicated that he swam across the Amur River
border and crossed over to China. Ecologists
suggested that the endangered Siberian tiger was probably looking for better
nutrition amidst fear of its safety. It
was stated that the tiger was used to keeping away from humans but in the
agricultural China, more populated, it ran the risk of entering human habitat
and putting itself to peril.

Last week newspaper
reports suggested that the prestigious tiger of Putin had returned to Russian
territory. The news of Kuzya's return to
Russia was reported by the the official Xinhua news agency. But it was stated that Kuzya would still
revisit China. The Vice- director of the
Feline Research Centre at China's State Forestry Administration was quoted as
saying that China has a sound forest ecosystem and plenty of food - although
Xinhua noted that the tiger 'never ate domestic animals' during his two-month
visit.

Concern over Kuzya's fate
prompted diplomatic contacts between the two countries to ensure his safety as
far as possible. Kuzya was one of five orphaned tigers found and cared for by
wildlife officials in the Far East of Russia. After being trained how to hunt, they were
released into the wild.Kuzya's brother Ustin - not released by Putin - also
ventured into Chinese territory last month. He was accused of killing 15 goats
in a remote village as reported by
Siberiantimes.com

Now MailOnline reports
that Putin’s tiger continues its killing spree.
The beast released into wild by
Russian president now filmed feasting on a pet dog as it terrorises Chinese
villages . The beast, who has also killed a flock of chickens on its rampage
across north-east China, is now believed to have returned to Russia. Kuzya, wears
a GPS tracking device, and its movements
are tracked through satellite. The tracking
showed the rare Amur cat swam across a river - evidently in search of a Chinese
meal after a shortage of its staple of deer in eastern Russia. Reportedly, animal remains were found near
the tiger's tracks, and feathers and blood near a smashed hen house. The big
cat was spotted again in Taipinggou nature reserve in Heilongjiang province and
some 60 cameras have been set up in a bid to track him. The Russians alerted
Beijing through diplomatic channels amid fears angry farmers might shoot the
tiger. A wildlife protection expert has
warned people not to throw food at the tiger if spotted. Despite the attacks,
the foreign ministry in Beijing pledged that Putin's tiger would be protected,
citing an existing agreement on cross-border protection of Siberian tigers.

Mr Putin was praised by Russian media for
saving a television crew from an attack by a Siberian tiger back in 2008. The
Russian president apparently saved the crew while on a trip to a national park
to see how researchers monitor the tigers in the wild. Just as he was arriving
with a group of wildlife specialists to see a trapped Amur tiger, it escaped
and ran towards a nearby camera crew, the country's main television station
said. Mr Putin quickly shot the beast and sedated it with a tranquilizer gun.

The Siberian Tiger is on the Red List of Threatened Species. Reportedly
Kuzya, knows how to avoid people and did
so well in Russia but in that agricultural area of China, it will be hard for
him. In 2010, Russia launched a national strategy to protect the Siberian
tiger, the largest of the five tiger species. According to World Wildlife Fund,
just 450 Siberian tigers are left on the planet.